Re: [BUG]smt sysfs dir missing on 4.4.148 and 4.14.63

[Jinpu Wang]

On Sat, Aug 18, 2018 at 2:50 PM Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 17 Aug 2018, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 17, 2018 at 02:39:00PM +0200, Jinpu Wang wrote:
> > >
> > > I found the problem, CONFIG_HOTPLUG_SMT is enable due to CONFIG_SMP,
> > > but I did explicitly enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU.
> > >
> > > That's why the smt dir is missing, and kernel panic when I boot with
> > > 'nosmt' or 'l1tf=full' probably also other combination.
> > >
> > > With CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU=y, it works fine so far.
> >
> > So do we need a new configuration dependancy here to resolve this
> > problem?  Why is this not an issue in Linus's tree?
>
> That's probably the same problem on Linus tree. Have not tested it yet
> though. I'll have a look.
>
> Thanks,
>
>         tglx
>
Yeah, it's the same problem on Linus tree.

Probably makes sense to do the following, I can sent a formal patch if
you think it's right thing to do:

diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
index b0312f8..8a52f0b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ config X86
        select HAVE_SYSCALL_TRACEPOINTS
        select HAVE_UNSTABLE_SCHED_CLOCK
        select HAVE_USER_RETURN_NOTIFIER
-       select HOTPLUG_SMT                      if SMP
+       select HOTPLUG_SMT                      if SMP && HOTPLUG_CPU
        select IRQ_FORCED_THREADING
        select NEED_SG_DMA_LENGTH
        select PCI_LOCKLESS_CONFIG


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